Tag: SaaS

Although cloud storage fabrics are very cool, a lot of multi-tenant applications will be build against a database. Based on some work we did on our super famous sample application LitwareHR 🙂 , we just released a blueprint providing guidance on writing a SQL Server based, single instance, multi-tenant data access layer. (thanks Michael for…

A couple of months ago I wrote an article providing a high level explanation of the basic concepts of S+S, now my friends in Asia Pacific need your help visualizing this article through a great video. Anyone can participate – whether you’re a student, IT pro, architect or someone with movie-making talent. The winner…

As I mentioned previously, the study of clouds (cloud computing of course) is becoming a very popular topic in the software industry. In the last couple of weeks alone, I read tens of articles on the subject. I found many of them proposing various type of taxonomies for cloud computing, utility computing, PaaS etc. even…

Nephology (from the Greek word nephos for ‘cloud’) is the study of clouds and cloud formation. It seems to me that everybody in the IT industry wants to be an expert in cloud these days; cloud computing that is. Jokes apart, one thing I learned from the real clouds is that : Atmosphere is a…

More seriously… Eugenio just announced and released on Codeplex the latest drop of LitwareHR. Although the application UI was treated with a welcomed ‘facelift’ (we were told that LitwareHR UI was "too 1990s"), the main effort for this release was to move from local storage infrastructure (SQL Server) to ‘cloud storage’ in the form of…

Below is an diagram I have been using for a while in my presentations on software + services (more about s+s here); so due to popular demand 🙂 here is an explanation of it in my blog. The image is meant to represent the new (or evolving) relationships among the different actors in a S+S…

Over the week end, I was looking at AMZN DevPay announcement and I started thinking in more general terms about the architectural impact of different monetization schemes. At a high level, software / service monetization can be put into 4 main categories: perpetual license (e.g. one time charge of $85 and you get unlimited access…

In the next couple of days I might have fun again and offer my 10 or so 2008 predictions as I did in 2007. (many of which I think are still very valid) but in case I don’t, I wanted to make sure that at least this one gets out. – 2008 will be the year of the…

When I went to New Zealand I did not manage to see any hobbits but I had the pleasure to record an ARCcast i.e. architecture podcast (direct link to podcast here) with Lukas Svoboda; not too surprisingly, we discussed Software + Services and SaaS from an Architect’s point of view. The talk covers various aspects such as: What is…

It took us a bit longer than expected, but our latest white paper is finally here! This white paper goes through the sometime quirky relationships that exist between ISVs wanting to deliver their software as a service and Hosters. Here is an excerpt from the paper: The Impetus for Specialized SaaS Hosting The case for specialized…